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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1933)
Bitterly Criticizes Detroit Banks ,...........,. .... Only Newspajper' '. '! ; Printed in La Grande v, ". Covering Union and " J Wallowa Counties La Grande Is The Gateway to Wallowa, 'The Switzerland of America" VOLUME 31 EASTERN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1933 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AND A. U. C. NUMBER 296 BAILED W LIMBBEIGH ffiBMFlMS? Michigan Senator mmtm COMMITTEES NAMED FOR FAIR-SHOW Will Make Prepai'ations Foi' Annual Event to Take Place Sept. 28-29 ENLARGEPOULTRY DIVISION, REPORT Popular. Model Airplane Division Continued; De Long Heads Chamber of Commerce Group. i Hevi'ral committees have been ap pointed for tlie annual Clrang Fair and Home Products show and Itave accepted the duties. The fair will be held on Sept. 28,and 28 at the h. D. S. Recreational ball. B. F. Webb and Arnold Voelz will have charge of the poultry displays. The poultry division has been enlarg ed this year and an hour will be set aside for a poultry program with some prominent poultryman addressing tlie spectators. The model airplane division, one of the biggest drawing cards of the show lost year, will be held again this year under the direction of B. H. DeLong. B. A. Sayre, county school superin tendent, will head the club work di tendent, will head the 4hH economics club work division: H. Q. Avery, county agent. 4-K livestock club work. This will be the first year since the grange fair was started that the live stock does not go directly from here to the state fair at Salem. A change of dates will make It Impossible this year. ' The chamber of commerce commit tee working for the success of the fair In connection with the granges Includes B. H. DeLong. chairman. A. W. Nelson, Lyle Kiddle, H. Q. Avery. R. P. Tyler, Clyde Bunting and H. C. Boone. Non-High School Board Will Meet Saturday Night The non-high school boardl of Un ion county, elected recently in five zones, will hold a meeting In the court house here at 8 o'clock tomor row night, It wns announced today. All high schools of the county also will be represented at the meeting, which Is called primarily to settle the question of transporting high school studentB living in non-high school districts to the high schools they will attend. LOUIS ANSELL FUNERAL WILL BE SATURDAY Funeral services for Louis Ansell, who died yesterday at his home here, will be held Saturday at 2 o'clock in the afternoon at the Snodgrnss and Zimmerman mortuary. Burial will take place In the Odd Fellows cemetery. WILL ATTEND C. E. SESSION Dr. and Mrs. J. L. McPherson and children, Miss Hulda Anderson, of La Grande, Mrs. Ed Clark and twin daughters and Miss Vera Case, all of Altcel. left this morning to attend 'the annual summer conference of the Christian Endeavor societies at Tur ner, Ore., which open on Monday. Dr. McPherson am Miss Anderson will attend the executive sessions which begin tomorrow, both of them being state officers. CITY WAITS FOR CITY TO PAY UP WARRANTS Every -week, in the Observer" city commission story, in telling of the cash account of the municipality, it usually winds up with the statement: "Remainder In warrants." Merchants who are holding city, county and school warrants have nothing on the city itself. The cash account right now in cludes warrants totalling 95669.781 And. like every Individual, the city must hold the warrants until funds are ready for their retirement. Of the total, 2 744. 71 represent school district warrants that have come to the city ,- in payment for something or other. Warrants on &ie county general WILL ROGERS WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 Well, Hew In here this afternoon from Chicago. Come to the old fountain qf rumors, to watch the hired) boys work under prespl ration. The town has got "codltls." Every time you come to Washington some body Is headlined, all the Interest Is centered there. Last time I was here they were featuring J. P. Morgan, once the R. F. C. But this time, all brief cases can be followed and they lead to the Hoover building. (The department of commerce building, covering the lower end of the District of Columbia and the entire northeastern part of Virginia.) Well, this old Oklahoma Johnson Is In there and he Is papa In Wash ington now. You bring your "code" to him. He uncodes it. Recodes you another one, you sign it, get you a bluebird, and! go back In business again. Yours, LIGHT, POWER CO. WILL ADD 7 EMPLOYES Utility Signs N. ' R. A. Code; Total, Under Blue, Eagle Here Nowjat210;.; The Eastern Oregon' Light & Power Co., operating. In Union and Baker counties primarily, Thursday signed the president's national recovery act, It was announced here today. Seven persons will be added to the company payroll as a result, two new employes in La Grande, three In Baker, one operator at the Rock Creek plant and one operator at the Fre mont plant. At present 60 men are employed by the company and the total will be 67 unrter the N.R.A. The addition of the seven persons will increase the annual payroll of the light and power company $7000 a year. One other signature was added to the N.R.A. list in La Grande since yesterday, bringing the total eligible to display. Blue Eagles here to 210. A new honor list, carrying additional names, was received by the post office today although the supply of Blue (Continued on Page Eight) RELIEF PROMISED: FROM HEAT WAVE FAILS TO ARRIVE Promised relief from the heat wave which tins held Eastern Oregon In Its grip for the last several days, has not yet arrived. Thursday's maxi mum. In spite of cloudy skies, was 08 above and It was the 30tli tiny tilt's summer with a maximum of no or higher. Last night's minimum of 70 above made It the second warmest night or 1933. The weatherman's prediction today still held forth hope for cooler weather for Eastern Oregon, with partly cloudy skies forecast for to night and Saturday. Over the state forest fires which had roared through fine forests dur ing the last week, were dormant to day and hundreds of weary men who had battled the flames for days were hopeful the danger now had passed. The Gales creek and Wilson river (Continued on Page ElghtV fund amount to $147.31 and county road fund warrants total $15.30. The city's warrants, however, have the biggest total. Right now there are warrants worth $2763.46 in the city's cash till, Issued by the city, regarded now aa cash, but for which no cash will be placed In the city treasury until their turn comes for retirement. In other words, t'le city has taken In a number of Its own warrants as payments on street assessments, but can handle them no differently than the ordinary person does the war rants he might hold until the city re tires the city warrants which the city holds. Ho hum I INQUIRY OF BANKS ASKED BYCOUZENS Says Poor Judgment of Bank Examiners Will Cause Loss of Millions FEDERAL MEN ARE PUT UNDER FIRE Couzens Asks For Crim inal Proceedings in Con nection With Union Guardian Trust Co. DETROIT, .ug. 18 W) Senator James Councils (It., Mluh.) today un leashed bitter criticism of Dotivlt banking methods preceding the Mlcliiguii bonk holiday, ilemuiided an investigation of onej bank transaction u-itit vli.w in p.rimliml nroceedlncs. and charged In another statement that "poor Judgment or federal bank examiners" will cause a loss or many minimis in Houiut made bv the closed First National bank, Iletrolt. Couzens testified for the second flay before the one man grand Jury in vestigating the closing 01 me jrm National bank and the Ouardlan Na tional Bank of Commerce. He de clared that while' the condition of Detroit banks may have been known to the government, it was considered a question of Judgment by federal officials whether to "wait for pros perity to return or insist on the let ter of the law and close the banks." That, he said, was "not an easy ques- 1 (Continued on Page Eight) Boys at Wallow ! f Lake Camp Will Be Home Sunday After 10 glorious clays spent at Wallowa Lake, the boys at the Wal lowa Lake boys camp will leave there Sunday morning for their homes. The last meal to be served will be Sun day morning and therefore parents are urged to come after their sons in the morning. Saturday night awards will be mode and the outstanding boy in camp and in each of the troops will be selected at the ceremonial. Monday morning the boys at the Wallowa Lake camp divided up Into three parties and went on an over night hike. One party of the "sick, lame, and lazy" took a short hike up to Bear camp on the Wallowa river. About 40 boys went on this short hike. Eleven boys went to Mirror '(Continued on Paso Elght A NEW Where Bridge Pier Will Rise in San Francisco Bay TUX &tt vyi T a.. v Ira-. r With actual construction of the ureal San Francisco-Oakland bay bridge tion scenes are shown In the above photo. With the city in the background, the constructing pier, fenders and working platform for the center anchorage af the project is pictured. A giant pier will arise here in - the middle of the bay. GROCERY STORES TO AGAIN BE OPEN SATURDAY NIGHTS Grocery k tores of La Grande, which, tentatively adopted a liH-hour open store week recently, have added two more hours to the total, bringing It to fiS hours and providing for Satur day nJ glut openings. Practically ail of the grocery stores which have been opening at 7:30 p. m. and. closing at 0 p. m. six days of the week, will, beginning tomorrow, East Oregon Retail ' Retail meat dealers of Eastern Ore gon, at a meeting dn Baker Thursday night unanimously approved the N. R. A. code recently drafted at a meet ing of the Oregon Retail Meat Deal ers' association In Eugene after the code had been explained by E. G. Harlan, of Eugene, secretary of the state organization. Thirty meat dealers from Burns and Ontario on tlie east to La) Grande in the west attended the gathering, ac cording to P. A. Epllng and M, M. Chrlstensen, who attended from this city. In brief, tlie code provides for fair competition, prevents secret rebates, concessions or allowances, prevents selling at less than cost, prevents un fair advertising, and of course the usual inclusions as to shorter hours for employes and minimum pay as. set by the federal government na tional recovery administration. Another objective is to stabilize wholesale prices to retailers, placing the meat Industry on an equal basis. The code also prohibits packers and USE FOR THE BIG V t wTT w remain open until 8 p. m. Saturday nights. The other five days of the week will find tlie present schedule unchanged. Reports today were that tlie ma jority of the grocery) stores along Ad ams avenue have agreed on the new plan, although two or three excep tions were reported. Meat Dealers wholesale meat dealers from, selling to unlicensed retail meat dealeus. It also was recommended to the U. S. department of agriculture the ur gent need for promotion of a na tional meat program to increase con sumption of meat and meat products. This code has many features of one adopted in Chicago in June, and from information received In Oregon, it will be adopted by the N. R. A. officials. v LOCAL MEN ON LIONS PROGRAM H. E. Cool id ge, Tom Bruce and Jack Cooltdge were among those ap pearing on the program at the an nual Ladies' night meeting of the Lions club at Wallowa last night. Mr. Coolldge was one of the principal hpeakers, while Tom, Bruce, accom panied by Jack Cool id ge, sang '"Celeste Aida" and "Evening Star" from "Tannhauser." STICK '1' . already underway, (Irsi construc Wuxtra! Wuxtra! King Carol Has The Measles! , BUCHAREST. Aug. 18 P) King Carol, already suffering from an attack of Influenza, ioa contract ed the measles, apparently from close contact with his eon, Crown Prince Michael, who has been a measles patient several days. N.R.A.TEETH TO BE USED IF NECESSARY Administrator Johnson Explains Attitude of N. R. A, in Statement.' WASHINGTON, Aug. IB (P) Hugh 3, Johnson, national recovery chief, said today the penalty provisions of the law were Intended only for "re calcitrant minorities" but that they would be used fully when necessary. At tlie same time, the administra tor told newspaper men tluit the "in flux of codes and the exhaustion of NRA insignia makes it look as though the Blue Eagle campaign is going over even moro rapidly than I expected." Shortly before, In opening tlie hear ing on an automobile code, Johnson had described the reemployment cam paign as "drawing to a close," adding that It has "covered the country from one end to the other with blue eagles." DicwiisKeN Penalities Discussing the penalties In the re covery act, the administrator repeated that It was Intended that under tlie code, Industry should govern itself. Ho said he expected the bulk of every industry to move together "in this great cooperating effort" but whenever it was necessary to use tlie penalties provision, including licens ing of Industries and fines or Jail sentences It would bo done. Johnson opened hearings on the (Continued on Page Four JOHN P. CUMMINS KILLED BY FALL SEATTLE, Aug. 18 (!) Plunging from an eight-floor window of the Olympic hotel, John P. Cummins, assistant general freight and pas senger agent for the Union Pacific at Portland, was killed today. He was formerly with the railway in Omaha. Coroner William J. Jones ond De tective Lieut. Richard J. Mahoney Immediately started an investigation. Cummins arrived hero at 7:45 a. m. from Portland to attend a meeting of railway officials. Fellow officials with him said they believed the fall was accidental. Wheat Today CHICAOO, Aug. 18 m Profit taking by recent buyers became an outstanding feature In all the grain pits lato today, and prices slipped back fast from early upturns. Wheat showed pronounced lack of aggressive support, and hit the minimum per mitted for one days decline, 6 ceuta a bushel. Wheat o lorn (I weak at the day's bot tom figures, 6 cents under the aver ago of yesterday's finish, corn He off to xc up, oats l(!3c down, and pro visions varying from 32o decline to a rise of 6c. JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME KKCOVKKY IS CONTINUING ' G Kit MAN TltOOl'KIt AKKESTEI) . CllltlSTIANS SLAUGHTER:.) PEAK STKIKE SETTLED . NEW -YORK, Aug. 18 P) Patw Ing of the inid-Kuinmer mnwou with out appreciable slowing of the pro greMS of recovery In busluesM, said the Dim and Itradatreet Inc., trade re view today, makes the possibility or any sizeable recewtlon more remote with each pawing week. BERLIN, Aug. 18 P) The storm trooper who struck Dr. Daniel Mulvl hill, of Brooklyn, N. Y., because he failed to salute parading Nazis Tues day night, already has been seized by the secret police and turned over to the regular police authorities, it was learned today. 1MG1IDAD, Iraq., Aug. 18 (P The killing of more than (100 Assyrian Christians In conflicts with the Kurds und the Iraq forces In Northern Iraq, lias climaxed uu International situa tion in which Great Britain, as the former mandatory power over Iraq, has been moved to take a hand. BAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18 (P) The Santa Clara Valley pear pickers strike has. been settled, Timothy Reardon, Governor Rolph's mediator, an nounced today. The pickers have gone back to work with promises of pay ranging from 25c to . 97 46 a an hour,' and "the pear crop la saved," Reardon declared. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (Presi dent Roosevelt decided today to mjuliilViin the civilian) conservation corps at lltt full strength of 814,000 for another six months, , , URGES HUNTERS TO BE CAREFUL WHILE IN HILLS With the grouse season scheduled to open in Union, Wallowa and Baker counties next Sunday morning, due to a change In the open season an ounced last Monday by the state game commission,, hunters are be ginning to look over their shotguns, high topped boots, etc. And at the same time, there comes a plea to grouse hunters from the forest service office at Wallowa. It reads: - "Within the last couple of weeks the forest and range lands In Wal lowa county have dried "but to the extent that now tho fire hazard has reached tho danger point. Each day from now on that low humidity and (Continued on Page Eight) OUTLINES PLAN FOR BUYING HOGS CHICAOO, Aug. 18 (TO Secretary Wallace today outlined the govern ment's emergency hog program for buying 6,000,000 swine, employing meat packers to process them, and distributing the meat to the needy. In an address at the Century or Progress Exposition, he said that the program will be ready to go Into ef fect in a few days and that he ex pects it to boost purchasing power In tho corn belt substantially. The plan should Increase prices of swine, possibly 35 to 30 per cent, he asserted, and at the same time pro vide relief to farmers heavily stocked with swino but with short feed sup plies due to drouth. The program calls for purchase of 4.000.000 pigs weighing 25 to 100 pounds at from fl to 9 cents a pound, and 1,000,000 sows soon to farrow, weighing a minimum of 275 pounds, at market prices on the day marketed plus a bonus of A. The purchases are to be complete by about October 1. Ho said the meat will not be sold In competition with that sold in reg ular trade channels, and that Inedible portions which will be converted into by-products "should be distributed In such a manner as not to upset the market." I INQUIRING REPORTER Each day as the Inquiring Ileporter makes the rounds two persons j will be stopped at random on the ntreet corner and asked torn l question of the day. Through the courtesy of Manager C, M. Wight euch Interviewed will be granted two complimentary tickets to the J Liberty T I hi Kip. The current ut I met Ion 1m nll-Htur cost In "Terror I Abroad." Do you consider horse racing a sport or a racket? is the problem of the Inquiring reporter today. Mrs. 8teve Hlatt, K. P. D. 1. be llcvcs, "Horsernclng is a port as long as it's run legally, but when it U. S. AGENTS ARE SILENT ABOUT CASE Neither Confirm Nor, Deny Reports Published in Denver Newspaper. FOIL ATTEMPT TO ' ESCAPE FROM CELL Bailey: Already Charged With Abduction of Okla-r uuma un millionaire, Kansas City Killings. . DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 18 (P the kidnaping of the Infant mm of Col. and Mm. Charles A. Undbergli In 1M2, and an atenipt to escape Jall . today, had become entwined In the round-up of a wide-spreadlnr Itidnnu and robber gang whose reputed lead er, llorvey uailey. Is In ijalt here under heavy guard. Federal operatives neither confirm ed nor dented reports published In tne Rocky Mountain News at Denver that two of Its agents had been as signed lor jue 11 necessary, . to ae- teimlne If Bailey or Albert L. Bates, a confederate held prisoner In Denver, . had any connection with the abduc tion and death of the filer's son. Tba police guard over Bates was , Increased to eight machine gunners after Chief of Police Albert T. Clark discovered three bars of Bates' cell ' had been hackee!) . through and j weapon-like motal pipe was .within 1 his reach. V ' ' : - i . Prompted by rumors that an at- t.nmnt. mlot. tu mula in "14tw,ratjk j Bailey; Dallas officers took unusual-.i' precautions to safeguard' him. ) j "Balley, charged with the abduction of Charles P. TJrschel, Oklahoma oil millionaire, also has been named by, the department of Justice - as the operator of a machine gun which mowed down four officers and their prisoner, Frank Nash, at Kansas City June 17 In an attempt to free Nash. Speedy prosecution of Bailey and four other suspects held in jail here for the kidnaping of the oil operator, was anticipated ns a result of special asnlstnnt attorney general' Leslie Sal- ' ter being sent to Oklahoma City to . press the government's cause against them, Salter left Chicago by plane laBt night. ; The four under arrest with Bailey, wore H. O. Shannon, at whose isolated' farm In Wise county Bailey was ar rested last Saturday; Shannon's wife; their son; Annon; and Armon's wife. The Shannons were anxious to make tho $50,000 bond set for each but protested it was . moro than they could raise. Bailey's bond was set at $100,000. NO NEWS AT TRENTON" TRENTON, N. J., Aug. 18 (P) Major Charles H. Schoeffel, of the New Jersey state police, said today no Information had been forwarded hero as to Harvey Bailey's possible connection with the Lindbergh kid naping, "Until that time," he added, "questions cannot be answered." . Three Slayers Put To Death In Sing Sing Chair liy Raymond Crowley OSSININO, N. Y., Aug. 18 (fl -Three times six equals eternity for three. That's Sing Sing mathematics a multiplication example for murder-' era. With the precision of a slide rule, tho machinery of doom took life lust ntght from three men. The operation took 18 minutes, divided neatly Into periods or tlx minutes each. John Jordan, 33, was first. His Hps formed the word "frame-up" as they strapped him Into the electric chair. George Swain, 21, was next, six min utes later. He was convicted, with Jordan, of killing two men while: holding up a restaurant in Astoria, Queens, t Last came Stephen Witheroll, 30. u patricide. Ho slow his father, Charles, in Hopklnton, because his father wouldn't lend him money. censes to be run legally It becomes ft racket." Lee Reynolds. 803 Pennsylvania ; avenue, says, "I think It can be ooin. You can make a racket out of a mar" ble gnnw It depends on the pcrr
